Notional Ranking

When a pair is newly formed (because of injury or a newly formed partnership), the new pair may be composed of two strong players who, in all likelihood, would achieve a high World Ranking once they have played together for some time.

Notional ranking is a method to estimate the strength of such newly formed pairs, and to seed them when appropriate.

The pre-requisite for having a Notional Ranking is that at least one player in the pair must have played with different partners during the 52 weeks period prior to the seeding date.